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WORKING PAPER
The MAP-B Program with Macro and Micro Applications
Ghobarah, HazenHinich, Melvin J. Abstract We present and apply a general methodology for obtaining a multi-dimensional map of the 'political space' in a given country based on the rating by members of the public of a set candidates or parties. This methodology produces spatial ideology maps of the stimuli (candidates or parties) and the distribution of ideal points of the public. Earlier versions of this methodology, have been applied to American presidential elections (e.g. Enelow and Hinich, 1984:169-216), and to elections in Taiwan (Lin, Chu and Hinich, in World Politics, 1996), Germany (Pappi and Eckstein, in Public Choice, 1998), Ukraine (Hinich, Khmelko and Ordeshook, in Post-Soviet Affairs, 1999), and Russia (Myagkov and Ordeshook, in Public Choice, 1998) among others. This methodology allows for the specification of a valence dimension to capture non-policy characteristics of parties and candidates. The new version (MapB) is capable of recovering the distribution of the estimates of the candidate/party positions in the ideological space through a modified resampling technique. Moreover, it is available as a standalone user-friendly program for the PC/Windows platform. Keywords maximum likelihood resampling spatial maps File
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